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wired.com • 8 min read

The Science of Memory: Why We Forget and How to Remember

By Sarah Chen • December 2024

Every day, we consume an enormous amount of information. Articles, books, podcasts, videos: the modern world offers unlimited access to knowledge. Yet most of it slips away within hours.

Research shows that without active recall, we forget up to 70% of new information within 24 hours. This phenomenon, known as the forgetting curve, was first described by Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885.

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